Regular readers and subscribers to this blog will know of the praise I’ve been putting the way of email commenting solution Postmatic in recent months.
Not only does the solution work seamlessly, it does exactly what it says on the tin – encourage blog commenting, comment interaction, and increased engagement. And it does it all in a snazzy email template that looks great on both desktop and mobile.
So enamoured have I been with the difference Postmatic has made not just to this blog, but to my overall blogging enjoyment too, I’ve decided to make the full switch over to a Postmatic-powered blog (at least as far as email and commenting is concerned).
Given I currently run a weekly newsletter with MailPoet, this is going to mean some changes. Here’s what they are, and what they mean for you.
If You’re a Current Newsletter Subscriber
If you’re an active subscriber to my weekly newsletter, you don’t need to do anything – you’ve already been moved over. However, this is only if you’re an active subscriber – so, you opened or clicked one of my newsletter emails.
If you didn’t do any of that, an email invite went out yesterday to advise of the change, and how to subscribe to the new format.
* Note – due to a glitch between MailPoet and Postmatic, several of you may have received multiple invites. My sincere apologies, and the Postmatic team is looking into what happened.
If you wish to continue receiving my posts, but now as soon as they’re published as opposed to a weekly digest, you’ll just need to reply with “agree” in your email and Postmatic will do the rest. If you don’t wish to change over, simply ignore the email and job done, subscription over. 🙂
The last newsletter will go out this coming Sunday, June 21, with an update on the new set-up.
If You’re a Current RSS Subscriber
Lucky you – you don’t have to do squat! 😉
Because Postmatic is an email-based delivery and commenting solution, my move won’t affect your RSS subscription. You can continue to get the posts you like via your chosen feed reader, or Feedly, since these are handled by my RSS provider, Feedio.
Of course, if you did want to get email delivery instead of RSS curation, then the next section is for you.
If You’re Not Yet Subscribed via Email
Because I’m moving from MailPoet to Postmatic, this means my email list details need to change. So, from this post on, anyone that uses the email subscription box at the end of each post will be added to my Postmatic email service.
This means any new posts I publish will be emailed straight to your Inbox, and then that’s when the fun really begins.
Because Postmatic not only delivers my posts to you by email, but also allows commenting by email, you never need to leave your Inbox again (at least for this blog).
Here’s what’ll happen:
- I create a post and hit Publish
- Postmatic delivers to your email
- You read the post, and if you want to comment, you hit Reply
- You write a comment as you would an email, and hit Send
- The comment appears on my post in the comments section
- Any replies to your comment, or new comments by others, will come back to your Inbox
- You choose whether to reply (by repeating the third and fourth bullet points)
- You continue to take part in the comments as long as you want.
The real beauty of Postmatic is that you, the reader/subscriber/commenter, are fully in control of what comes into your Inbox.
- If you simply want to read a post, you get that post by email, read it, then delete it. You won’t see any comment emails unless you leave a comment yourself.
- If the comments are getting too busy, Postmatic will pause notifications (when there are more than 6 comments on a single post within an hour). You choose if you wish to continue receiving notifications.
- If you simply want to stop comment notifications, you just send an email with the word “Unsubscribe”, and you drop out of that conversation.
Don’t worry, Postmatic reiterates these points with an introduction email when you sign up to my blog via email.?It’s a very elegant way of ensuring your Inbox doesn’t get clogged with multiple emails from the same blog post.
So there you have it. As of this post, all future posts will be delivered by Postmatic. There are also some cool features coming down the line to make your experience an even better one, so stay tuned.
Thank you for being with me this far, and I look forward to seeing you in the comments in posts to come!